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A Warning to New Authors Who Want to Be Published
It used to be simple. If a publisher was interested in your work he paid you an advance and published your work.
These days once respected publishers like Penguin operate as vanity-presses. They try to sell you something, for thousands of dollars, that you can do for yourself or for which you can hire people do to it for you for tens of dollars.
In... Read more of this blog post »
It used to be simple. If a publisher was interested in your work he paid you an advance and published your work.
These days once respected publishers like Penguin operate as vanity-presses. They try to sell you something, for thousands of dollars, that you can do for yourself or for which you can hire people do to it for you for tens of dollars.
In... Read more of this blog post »
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A Dish Served Cold
— published 2009 — 2 editions |
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The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate (Dark Tales of Randamor the Recluse, #1)
— published 2010 |
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The Invisible Chains - Part 2: Bonds of Fear (Dark Tales of Randamor the Recluse, #2)
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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The Invisible Chains - Part 3: Bonds of Blood (Dark Tales of Randamor the Recluse, #3)
— published 2011 |
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Just Don't Mess With Us: Family Matters
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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The Invisible Hands - Part 1: Gambit (Dark Tales of Randamor the Recluse, #4)
— published 2012 |
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The Invisible Hands - Part 2: Castling (Dark Tales of Randamor the Recluse, #5)
— published 2013 |
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Beginnings
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Just Don't Mess With Us (Gay & Lesbian)
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This story is fast food, an ice cream, a snack. Right after eating it, you will feel hungry again. It has no nutritious value whatsoever, but I hope you'll find it tasty.
It's actually the third installment of a series of five slices of life, all in the same setting. Matt, Jason, Jamie and Alan, the narrator, live together in a loving relationship.
The stories probably make a little bit more sense — not much, however — when you read them in sequence.
Ever thought about how it would be if you were in love with three persons at once? And all three were in love with you? And with each other? And you lived together? And you all were guys? Wouldn't it just be like a family? That is what Alan thinks...
Alan thinks his family is just like any other, and he gives a few examples to prove that. Here is one of them.
If I can make you smile once or twice, I will consider my goal accomplished. Hell, I'll settle for a raised eyebrow.
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Romeo and Juliet, abridged.
ROMEO: I’m Romeo, and I used to be emo and annoying but now I’m so totally in luuuuurve and it’s AWESOME. MERCUTIO: Okay, three things: One, there’s only room in this play for one awesome character and it’s me, bitch. Tw... " Read more of this review » |
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Read a non-fiction book and you are dependent on the skill, integrity, and nous of the author. Sadly Mr Klein comes across as a bit of a numpty and an anti-Obama troll.
There are so many examples of Mr Klein's bumbling, demonstrated ironically as h... " Read more of this review » |
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There are plenty of fantasy authors who claim to be doing something different with the genre. Ironically, they often write the most predictable books of all, as evidenced by Goodkind and Paolini. Though I'm not sure why they protest so much--predi...
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… You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history.” — Andrew Ashling |
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“A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days ago. What's that? Nine months or nine minutes. It's the same. And it is in the past, you say? Then why is it still happening, every day, every time I close my eyes? Every time I hear someone behind me, and I don't know who it is? How is it that I get an almost irresistible urge to kill anyone who happens to touch me unexpectedly? Tell me, Hemarchidas, how do I forgive, let alone forget, something that is still happening, that keeps happening over and over? How? How do I do that?”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate
“Deal with all this, live with myself, you mean? I honestly don't know. I stand often enough at the abyss of my soul, asking that same question, looking down in the dark crevices where the black monsters dwell on the bottom. They gaze up at me, and I look them in the eyes. “This also you are,” they say, and I almost fall into the void.”
“And then?”
Anaxantis shrugged.
“And then? I turn around and go do what needs to be done. What else is there?”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate
“And then?”
Anaxantis shrugged.
“And then? I turn around and go do what needs to be done. What else is there?”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate
“I will give you a few guarantees of my own, Mukthar. I guarantee that before the sun sets, even if you win, even if my cold, dead body is lying on the field, you will rue the day you ever set foot in the Plains. For every inch you advance I'll exact gallons of Mukthar blood. I guarantee that there will be not one family of the Bear Mukthars or they will mourn at least one of theirs. I guarantee that even if you are triumphant the fruits of victory will taste like dust in your mouth. I guarantee that if you fail to kill me today, you will meet me again. You will meet me at the Ximerionian border. You will meet me at every city, town, village, and hamlet. You will meet me on every Amirathan crossroad, on every hill. I will fight you with every sword at my command, with every arrow, with every dagger. I will fight you with pitchforks. I will fight you with the very rocks of the land you try to conquer. I will never, never, never give up.
~Anaxantis, before the Battle of the Zinchara (May 29th, 1453 aed)”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 3: Bonds of Blood
~Anaxantis, before the Battle of the Zinchara (May 29th, 1453 aed)”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 3: Bonds of Blood
“Davellon may be a village, but the Davellon House can be anything you make it. Nobility has to start somewhere. It might as well start with you. Let nobody look down on you, for whatever reason, My Lord. Titles are granted or inherited, nobility isn't.
~Tenaxos I to Landar Parmingh, Baron Davellon
(The Invisible Hands - Part I: Gambit)”
― Andrew Ashling
~Tenaxos I to Landar Parmingh, Baron Davellon
(The Invisible Hands - Part I: Gambit)”
― Andrew Ashling
“A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days ago. What's that? Nine months or nine minutes. It's the same. And it is in the past, you say? Then why is it still happening, every day, every time I close my eyes? Every time I hear someone behind me, and I don't know who it is? How is it that I get an almost irresistible urge to kill anyone who happens to touch me unexpectedly? Tell me, Hemarchidas, how do I forgive, let alone forget, something that is still happening, that keeps happening over and over? How? How do I do that?”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate
“I will give you a few guarantees of my own, Mukthar. I guarantee that before the sun sets, even if you win, even if my cold, dead body is lying on the field, you will rue the day you ever set foot in the Plains. For every inch you advance I'll exact gallons of Mukthar blood. I guarantee that there will be not one family of the Bear Mukthars or they will mourn at least one of theirs. I guarantee that even if you are triumphant the fruits of victory will taste like dust in your mouth. I guarantee that if you fail to kill me today, you will meet me again. You will meet me at the Ximerionian border. You will meet me at every city, town, village, and hamlet. You will meet me on every Amirathan crossroad, on every hill. I will fight you with every sword at my command, with every arrow, with every dagger. I will fight you with pitchforks. I will fight you with the very rocks of the land you try to conquer. I will never, never, never give up.
~Anaxantis, before the Battle of the Zinchara (May 29th, 1453 aed)”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 3: Bonds of Blood
~Anaxantis, before the Battle of the Zinchara (May 29th, 1453 aed)”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 3: Bonds of Blood
“Deal with all this, live with myself, you mean? I honestly don't know. I stand often enough at the abyss of my soul, asking that same question, looking down in the dark crevices where the black monsters dwell on the bottom. They gaze up at me, and I look them in the eyes. “This also you are,” they say, and I almost fall into the void.”
“And then?”
Anaxantis shrugged.
“And then? I turn around and go do what needs to be done. What else is there?”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate
“And then?”
Anaxantis shrugged.
“And then? I turn around and go do what needs to be done. What else is there?”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate
“Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't.”
― Andrew Ashling, A Dish Served Cold
― Andrew Ashling, A Dish Served Cold
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Lavinia
May 09, 2011 01:29pm
Hi Andrew, thanks for the add!
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I really wanted it to be Adam even if that doesn't fit as well as Alexander. Thanks for the Bday wishes
Bubbles (Dane) wrote: "Thank you, I saw you in the chat last night. You will forever be known as the man with a million middle names to me."LOL
Simple to remember though. Triple A.
Thank you, I saw you in the chat last night. You will forever be known as the man with a million middle names to me.
Td wrote: "Chapter 3 is up, YES! I'm off to read it now. Thank you. Happy New Year!"Happy New Year to you as well, Td. Hope you'll like The Mercy of Wolves.
Tame wrote: "thank you for the friend acceptance :) I look forward to reading your works!!Take care :)
Tame"
Thanks for inviting me. I hope you enjoy them. :)
